Key Concepts
Activities - interventions or program components implemented to produce the immediate changes or results. Sometimes these are grouped into strategies that encompass a number of related activities.
Causal Pathway – a planning tool showing the steps that are needed to achieve the program goal(s). It allows you to lay out the program plan and see how each component logically relates to the previous piece. It includes: inputs, activities, outputs, objectives (immediate and intermediate) and goals. This is sometimes referred to as the program logic model.
Determinants of SRHR problems - social, cultural, economic, political, legal factors that operate on individual, family, community, and societal levels.
Final result or goal - the ultimate positive change the program is working towards in the long run.
Immediate changes or results - effects caused directly by the program.
Intermediate changes or results - modifications that are needed to achieve the final results or goals and that are logically related to the immediate effects of the program, but are one or more steps removed from the program itself.
Needs assessment - a study that collects data on the nature, size and causes of the target problem.
Theory of Change - How the social issue that is the focus of your work is enacted and produced at various levels in society (i.e. individual, cultural, economic, organizational) and what intervention is believed will have an impact on this issue based on extensive programmatic experience and scientific evidence. For an example of theory of change from international conflict work:
http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/theories_of_change/
